Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:16:00 -0700
From: Ron Buckmire <ron@abacus.oxy.edu>
Subject: Texas Action on Anti-Marriage Bill

Date:         Thu, 24 Apr 1997 17:50:14 -0500
From: "Robert E. Lewis" <rlewis@BRAZOSPORT.CC.TX.US>
Subject:      TEXAS Same-Sex Marriage Bill

LEGISLATURE COMMITTEE PASSES BAN ON
RECOGNIZING OUT-OF-STATE AME-SEX MARRIAGES

A committee of the Texas House on Wednesday approved a bill barring
recognition of marriages between out-of-state homosexual couples, according
to a story in the April 24 Houston Chronicle. It will next be voted on by the
entire House.

The bill, authored by Pampa Republican State Rep. Warren Chisum, was
passed by a unanymous 6 - 0 vote of the House Committee on Business and
Industry.

"I just believe it's the role of this House that we not only not allow
homosexuals
to be married in the state, but we not allow them to circumvent our laws by
going
to another state, then coming back here and claiming to be married under
another state statute," Chisum is quoted as saying.

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